About this opportunity
AI summaryThe government authority located in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, seeks information from vendor sources capable of providing offsite Sterile Processing Department support services. The selected vendor must handle the complete cycle of picking up contaminated items, decontaminating, inspecting, assembling, sterilizing through steam and low-temperature modalities, and delivering clean surgical instruments and powered equipment. Primary objectives include establishing a reliable process for tray assembly and sterilization, adhering to state, federal, and industry standards, maintaining a clear auditable tracking system, and ensuring timely returns to support the agency's surgical schedule. Only onshore USA organizations are eligible to submit responses. The issuing agency is currently looking for proposals to establish this offsite service process.
Buyer and opportunity details
- Client
- Department of Defense, Defense Health Agency
Scope of work
- Turn-key transport and pickup of contaminated items from GLWCH loading dock
- Decontamination, inspection, assembly, and sterilization of surgical instruments
- Steam and low-temperature sterilization modalities
- Delivery of clean and sterile surgical instruments and powered equipment to GLWCH
- Establishment of GLWCH inventory in contractor tracking system using barcoding protocols
- Processing specialty and oral surgery instrumentation, complex powered equipment, and masks
- Daily sterilization load records, equipment logs, and transportation environmental logs
- Monthly quality, sterilization, and tracking reports
Minimum qualifications
- Sterilization and processing facility must be physically located within the state of Missouri
- Duly licensed and certified to provide sterile processing services in the state of Missouri
- Comply with standards from The Joint Commission, AAMI, ANSI/AAMI ST79, ANSI/AAMI ST108, DHA, and OSHA
- Complete Level I OPSEC training within 10 calendar days of reporting for duty
- Complete AT Level I Awareness training within 10 days after starting performance
- Comply with installation, facility, and area commander access and local security policies
- Review FLW Directorate of Emergency Services web link for iWatch training within 10 calendar days of award
Documents to include with your response
- Level I OPSEC course certificates
- AT Level I Awareness training certificates of completion
- Information required for background checks to meet installation access requirements
- Quality Control (QC) Plan
- Daily Sterilization Load Record and Equipment Log
- Daily Transportation Environmental Log
- Monthly Sterilization and Tracking Records
- Monthly Quality Report
- Monthly Invoice submitted through WAWF
- Report of Compromised or Incomplete Tray as required
Contract details
- Term
- Base Year of six months from date of award, with potential for two six-month option periods.
- Place of performance
- Contractor sterilization and processing facility located in Missouri; Pickup and Drop Off at General Leonard Wood Community Hospital, 4234 Illinois Avenue, Fort Leonard Wood, MO 65473.
